Print edition of Christian Science Monitor ends

The Christian Science Monitor prints its final edition today, bringing a 100-year run as a daily newspaper to an end but beginning a new era as an online publication.

The Boston-based Monitor announced plans in October to eliminate its daily print edition and become the first national US newspaper to adopt a Web-based strategy.

Like other US dailies, the Monitor had been losing readership and print advertising revenue to online media for years and circulation was hovering around 50,000 by the time the decision was made to shut down the presses.